Holger Thiele

Holger Thiele (September 25, 1878 – June 5, 1946) was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.[2]

Asteroids discovered: 4 [1]
797 MontanaNovember 17, 1914MPC
843 NicolaiaSeptember 30, 1916MPC
1847 StobbeFebruary 1, 1916MPC
3229 SolnhofenAugust 9, 1916MPC

He was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838–1910), the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the main-belt asteroid 1586 Thiele is named.[3]

Holger Thiele is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4 numbered asteroids during 1914–1916.[1] He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory at Bergedorf, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1912, he immigrated to the United States.[4]

In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County in 1946.[5]

Selected works
  • Corrected elements and ephemeris of minor planet 1924 TD (Baade) (University of California Press. 1925)
  • Elements and ephemeris of Comet d 1927 (Stearns) (University of California Press. 1927)

References
  1. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  2. "California Death Records". Archived from the original on 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
  3. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(1586) Thiele". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1586) Thiele. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 125–126. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1587. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
  4. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc
  5. SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)


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